KIEV, Feb. 26 – Russia's Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) group is likely to take part in a tender for the privatization of 67.79% of the shares of Ukrtelecom, Andrei Dubovskov, the acting general director of Ukrainian Mobile Communications (MTS UKR), told journalists.

KIEV, Feb. 26 - Kharkiv Roller Bearing Plant, one of the largest roller bearing producers in the CIS and part of the UPEK Group, is to buy a robotic turning complex worth EUR4 million from Japan's Muratec, according to a UPEK announcement.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – The Industry Ministry has drawn up and submitted to the cabinet a draft resolution on the creation of a state vertically integrated holding in titanium production, Deputy Industry Minister Serhiy Hryschenko said on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - Polish international pipeline enterprise Sarmatia Ltd. on Tuesday announced a tender to select a company which will carry out the feasibility study for the European-Asian oil transportation corridor project, UkrTransNafta reported.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - Mostobud and Sun Land Group Corp. of the United States signed a $7 billion agreement Tuesday on construction of bridges in Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – The Economy Ministry expects that inflation in February will be much lower than in January, according to First Deputy Minister Anatoliy Maksiuta.

He told the press on Tuesday that the government was continuing to work on anti-inflation measures.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - The government on Wednesday indefinitely postponed a bill that would introduce licensing for traders selling gasoline and diesel fuel through retail and wholesale chains.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - Ukraine's exports of vodka and other alcoholic beverages fell by 24% to 8.15 million deciliters worth $192 million last year, an industry association reported.

KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ Ukrsotsbank, Ukraine??™s No. 6 bank by assets, raised $400 million, more than expected, through an issue of three-year Eurobonds as investors had rushed to buy the paper, the bank reported.

KIEV, Feb. 27 ??“ Slovakia is ready to increase imports of electricity from Ukraine by four times, to 2 billion kWh per year, Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister Volodymyr Luchnikov said after the meeting of the premiers of Ukraine and Slovakia held in Kiev on Monday.